KLIA2 Delays and The Blaming Game

Fiasco in the KLIA is nothing new. When the airport opened on 27 June 1998 a week before the Hong Kong's opening. The truth was, the airport was not ready. That time I was still working with MAS, and spent weeks in KLIA, doing the volunteer jobs to help ease up the system. The gate allocation system did not work yet. So yo can find pilots were looking around for their aircraft. The airlines staff were having problem to identify which aircraft were for which flight. 
The bag tagging and sorting system did not work. The aircraft departs without the bags. You can find thousands of passengers bags laying to be identified.
In most countries that care for safety and passengers comforts, rather that records of achievements, would not open such airport.  

AIR ASIA
- Urge  the government to set up independent body to probe the delays.
- The airline alleged that the cost could be in term of 5billions.
- Dismissed the claim that the delay due to the airlines slow decision on the baggage handling system.

MALAYSIAN AIRPORTs
- Slapped LAD totaling rm63.42mil
- Cost capped to rm4bil

BINA PURI - Part of UEM Group with possible link to UMNO.
- appealing against the LAD
- Delays were caused by last minutes decision by MAHB
- 93% of the jobs have been completed and the remaining 7% by end of this year.

KLIA2 - 212 NCR on UEM- Bina Puri

the star biz 24 Jun 2013

It was reported that MAHB, Malaysian Airport Holding had submitted a total of 212 non-compliance reports against the contractors of KLIA2. The defects have to be rectified before the opening on 30 Apr 2014.

For now the UEM Bina Puri has been slapped with RM6mil monthly fine. With the handling over in on Apr 31, the fine will be for 318 days from the original date on Jun 16 2013, and with charges of rm199,445.40, the total fine will be rm63.42mil.

UEM won the contract to build up the KLIA2 for rm997.2 mil in 2010. The new revised budget to complete the airport is RM4billion.  

Penang Bridge Collapsed on 6 June 2013

Another project by Malaysian Federal Government collapsed just three months before its official opening. A section of the ramp linking it to the expressway collapsed and it was feared that 4 peoples were killed.

The Star 7 Jun 2013

 The concessionaire, Jambatan Kedua Sdn Bhd said that the collapsed part was being casted at the time, when scaffolding supporting it collapsed.

The 24km long bridge is set to be the longest in SE Asia and the 20th longest in the world scheduled to be completed in July and road tested in Aug and officially opened in Sept 2013.

star 8 jun 2013

Tajuddin Zainal Abidin was killed when 500 tonnes of concrete fell into his car.He was burried at Kampong Perlis in Bukut merah. He survived by his wife Sharifah and daughter Nur Aina Syazwani. 

KLIA 2 Delays

KLIA2 - The Star 12 Jun 2013

The airlines are anxious about the opening date of KLIA2.